Another Small Step Before the Giant Leap

Armchair Anarchist writes "Over at Futurismic, a new column proposes that NASA's plans to establish a lunar colony are an attempt to run before we can walk properly, and that developing orbital habitats first would be a wiser and more realistically attainable project. From the article: "... it seems to me that the trump card is with the orbitals; orbit is closer, cheaper and easier to get to, and offers more flexibility as a long-term outpost. Sure, let's put men back on the moon, mine it for helium-3, research its history and origins. But it makes more sense to launch missions of that type from an already-established colony in orbit.""

Comments

ISS

[SengirV]

The ISS is as big of a money pit as the Shittle. It servers little to no purpose and is detracting from he ultimate goal of Humans in Space in any kind of useful manor.

A Lagrange Point for the ISS should have been the bare minimul requirement. But instead, NASA had to justify the use of the pissant shuttle. UGH!!!! The shuttle killed human spaceflight and they still use it as an excuse to F up future projects.

I wish I could go back in time and shoke the shit out of the person who came up with the idea of the shuttle.

Re:Mars

[clickclickdrone]

>Why aren't we sending a manned mission to Mars?
I thought we were? Same Bush speech as 'Iraq has WMDs' etc.